Re: [5] hotfixes

2003-07-18 Thread Remy Maucherat
Tim Funk wrote: One feature of enterprise ready software is the ability to apply small patches to an existing system. For example: if a single class (or a few classes) have an error and that is the only fix - it might be nice to deploy a jar (or jars) that have a higher classloader preference.

RE: [5] hotfixes

2003-07-18 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Howdy, Currently o.a.c.startup.ClassLoaderFactory just does a standard directory listing. It might be nice to have the directory listed sorted in some manner so files with certain attributes might be loaded first. I was thinking of either - sorting by date - looking for

Re: [5] hotfixes

2003-07-18 Thread Glenn Nielsen
Well stated, I agree with your concerns. Shapira, Yoav wrote: Howdy, Currently o.a.c.startup.ClassLoaderFactory just does a standard directory listing. It might be nice to have the directory listed sorted in some manner so files with certain attributes might be loaded first. I was thinking of

Re: [5] hotfixes

2003-07-18 Thread Martin Algesten
Hello, I don't agree with Glenn or Yoav. For each tomcat 4.1.x version I use there are a couple of things I have to fix over and over again. My approach to making changes is: 1) take the official binary release of tomcat and 2) make *minimal* changes to address the problems I have with it.

Re: [5] hotfixes

2003-07-18 Thread Tim Funk
Yeah, I am scared of side effects too. This funtionality will be helpful in the following situations: - My previous post where the access log doesn't print '+' in front of the offset - ExtendedAccessLogValve printed the date instead of bytes (recent patch) - The recent Connector fixes we have

Re: [5] hotfixes

2003-07-18 Thread Remy Maucherat
Tim Funk wrote: Yeah, I am scared of side effects too. This funtionality will be helpful in the following situations: - My previous post where the access log doesn't print '+' in front of the offset - ExtendedAccessLogValve printed the date instead of bytes (recent patch) - The recent Connector

RE: [5] hotfixes

2003-07-18 Thread Shapira, Yoav
it anyways, with documentation, testing, etc. Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics -Original Message- From: Remy Maucherat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:52 AM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: [5] hotfixes Tim Funk wrote: Yeah, I am scared of side effects too

Re: [5] hotfixes

2003-07-18 Thread Glenn Nielsen
Tim, If the problem is that bug fixes have not made it into a release in a timely manner, then we should be doing releases more frequently. Or put back in place the nightly builds. Using hotfixes to bridge the gap between releases is overkill IMHO. I am still -1 on adding this. Glenn Tim Funk

Re: [5] hotfixes

2003-07-18 Thread Tim Funk
Thats ok with me, I'm glad this was discussed in case this topic comes up in the future. -Tim Remy Maucherat wrote: After reading everyone's comments, I will vote -1 to the hotfix proposal, because: - To unsubscribe,